On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The important point here is the difference between perl5 and perl5.XY.
>
> Right, thanks. But I thought the following would do that
>
>         $ sudo port activate perl5.14 @5.14.2_2
>
> At least that is what I would expect from a DWIM perspective.
>

I would very much *not* expect that to overwrite a /opt/local/bin/perl (or
any other file, for that matter) from a different port.

(What I would expect is for "port select" to work --- but alas, not yet for
perl.)

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